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The mayor said the city is “making tremendous progress” in bringing down COVID-19 cases, but noted cases remain high with health officials “still seeing too many people dying every day from COVID.”
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Audio and summary Why the Holdup Using Artificial Intelligence to Cut Illinois Government Costs? – Wirepoints
May 19, 2026
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A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
Note to readers from Mark Glennon re: Ukraine
May 6, 2026
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Everybody needs a side hustle these days, and mine is Ukraine, where I am now.
Wirepoints’ Mark Glennon on AM560’s Morning Answer – Chicago’s struggling commercial real estate and more
April 22, 2026
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Summary and audio linked here.
Lori can’t release the cudgel. Covid has represented her ring of power!
Lightfoot is anxiously awaiting her Fed judgeship appointment to rescue her from Chicago. Alas, it’s long overdue, and not coming, so all Chicagoans must suffer while Lightfoot rages onward. Only the most myopic progressives still think Lightfoot is a decent mayor.
Just one more reason to avoid ever going into Chicago!
Lightweight better read the tea leaves. People are tired of the heavy handed control freaks in Illinois. The rest of the nation is on the path to normalcy, while in Illinois the politicians are holding on tight, trying to exercise their authority. Drunk with power is a bad look on anybody.
Lightfoot will keep the biden face diaper mandate in force in Chicago for at least a week longer than fatboy ends the Illinois mandate. That way she can show that she knows better than fatboy and cant be intimidated by the governor. Every step of the way Lightfoot has had different timing than the state and the county for lockdowns and democrat face diaper mandates.